Please note: Due to resources, maintaining the desktop app became a bit difficult, so it has now been discontinued. We’re currently focusing energy on making the iOS app and web experience as good as they can be. If you enjoyed the playlist feature, the new SoundCloud allows this. If you would like to bring the SoundCloud experience to your desktop, you can try out this app (just keep in mind that we don’t have the proper resources to maintain this app at full speed).

With today’s launch of the Mac App Store, we’re happy to announce a new addition to the suite of native apps: the SoundCloud Desktop app for Mac. The coolest part: it’s currently a featured app in the Mac App Store in the section “What’s Hot” and also high up the list in the music category. The absolute coolest part: it’s free.

We’re bringing the SoundCloud experience to your desktop that allows you to access all the sounds shared exclusively with you to browse, listen to and favorite sounds. Create custom playlists and saved searches to see the sounds you need in an instant and download others for offline playback. And just like all the official SoundCloud apps it also includes record functionality that lets you easily capture and upload any sound whenever you need to share or store something quickly.

So whether you’re a serious sound professional who needs something to manage your daily workflow or just a casual creator who prefers the smooth native experience of OS X, SoundCloud Desktop does just the job.

Features:
– Record: capture your sounds right in the app and upload to your SoundCloud account in no time.
– Listen to, favorite and manage your exclusive and incoming tracks in one place.
– Browse and search any sound
– Create playlists and saved searches

Note:
Only tracks that have been made available for 3rd party applications will be accessible via SoundCloud Desktop. To change your settings, go to your track settings (pen icon above the waveform) and enable Apps.

Open the Mac App Store on your Mac after the software update that will install a dock icon for accessing the store. Or try this direct link.

As always, let us know what you think in the comments below. And if you like it, give kudos to Robb, brainchild behind the app. Well done!

without ability to do comments it’s not really useful to me right now since I always like to give people support. but it’s great you guys are on the path with this app, excited to see what happens next!

Hi – nice work on the app! Do you have any plans to group tracks into Sets as on the site? Without that I find it very difficult to make sense of the list of tracks. I would far prefer to listen through an app but probably won’t make the switch without Sets.

This is a standalone app, right? So, is there a direct download link? I’m on 10.6.5 (never upgrade on the day) and to be honest, I have absolutely no interest in the store. So I’d rather install it seperately from the store.

A lot of people can’t run snow leopard due to them having older apple hardware (PPC), do you have any plans to release a version for leopard (10.5) that doesn’t require the app store? Also do you have any plans to implement comments or messages into the app?

Great work all around though, it makes listening to your incoming tracks a lot easier!

can you use this App to upload tracks too? if so I can not see how??… I know you can record a track but I am talking about one that i have recorded in say logic.

RE

I’m not sure… I thought client-os-based-apps times were finally over…
Maybe a Browser Plugin like EXfm would be a better choice?

Matt Servo

sounds great…. now, what about a Windows version?

David

yes, please. a simple .dmg would be great, even if non-automatic updates is the trade-off – unless of course you download the latest version from your site. for some the app store might be the right choice, but there a lot of people out there who like to keep their apps and related contents private. speaking figuratively: i like sitting on my own “cloud” where i can make sure nobody comes along i don’t like – i.e. Apple. ;)

David

yes, please. a simple .dmg would be great, even if non-automatic updates is the trade-off – unless of course you download the latest version from your site. for some the app store might be the right choice, but there a lot of people out there who like to keep their apps and related contents private. speaking figuratively: i like sitting on my own “cloud” where i can make sure nobody comes along i don’t like – i.e. Apple. ;)

Just starting to use the “Soundcloud Desktop App”, so i cant judge yet, but I already have a question:

WHY does my “online-plays-counter” count +1 when I play MY tracks with MY desktop app? Also: Why does it count +1 if I play MY tracks online?

Some people might like to fake thousands of plays by clicking their own tracks again and again, but I dont. Some people might love to fool others. I dont want to fool myself nor others. So I´d really appreciate a checkbox where I can deactivate “fake-counting”.

I have an apple account and when i tried to download the DESKTOP soundcloud application i was blocked or could not get to download. If this Desktop application is free why do we have to go thru the store to download. Just make it a download directly from the soundcloud web site.

hey! is there any way to add a list of stuff my followers commented? that’d be a nice airplay list to dig interesting stuff. thanks

Michaelcmallon

This is one of the reasons I use soundcloud, the ability to follow someone and keep up on new music. Why on earth is this not part of the app? no reason to use this app at all without this.

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Please delete the above comment, I had no idea this site would publish my email address when commenting. Thank you!

Colleen

I saw this comment on the apple app site: “Hate when an application does this and not tell you that you have to buy a plan to listenFree is only 120min of music u can listen to and then your done.”

Is this true?? If it is, I’m not going to waste my time and computer space.

Jrwaltb

Use Adobe Air to port this to windows please. The site is very good but very slow (even in FF4b9 and Chrome 8/9). I think a desktop app would be perfect. You could even use Silverlight4 if you want. Soundcloud is about music not Apple.

You can download the track / mix / whatever direct from soundcloud, when the owner allowed this. When not .. buy the tracks via beatport / juno / the store you like. ;)

Raffaele

+1

Medea Aedem

Basically, those with a Soundcloud account, or wanting one, etc., should not have to have the Mac App Store installed whatsoever. I’ve been a mac user for a decade plus, and i’m not going to install this “cr*pStore” just yet. It should not matter. Please make a Universal Binary .img of this app as well as an “.exe” file for dos users. It’s just ridiculous. or i know, i just won’t use it. cheers. no hard feelings.

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